The december 5th, 2012 meeting of San Francisco board of appeals. The presiding officer this evening is board president chris hwang who is engined by Vice President frank fung, commissioner [aers ]ia hurtado and commissioner ann lazarus and welcome to our newest member commissioner honda. Deputy [khrfrpb ] or City Attorney will provide the board with any needed legal advice and the Legal Process clerk and im Cynthia Goldstein and were joined by departments Scott Sanchez here, the Zoning Administrator and also representing the Planning Department and planning commission. Joseph dusty representing the department of building inspection, and department of would now like to, urban foresty. The board requests that you turn off longer devices so they will not disturb the proceedings. Please carry on conversations in the hallway. Appellants, permitholders and Department Responds have seven presents to preponderant their case. People must include their comments with the 7 or 3minute periods. Me
And muni and ac transit and the change since that time has been a proposal to change the core capacity formulas to savor some of the smaller operators proposes 30 percent to the big 3 and seventy percent to the other operators. The Regional Transit ridership is about eighty percent carried by the big 3 operators and the balance carried by the other operators so that will continue and hope there will be more time to make that formula more equitable across the region. So were monitoring the transportation california and alliance for jobs proposal for statewide vls and if passed the fifty percent threshold could generate the estimated 25 billion dollars statewide and for San Francisco slightly less about 57 million per year compared to 73 if we were to pass it locally. The active Transportation Program weve reported on in the pass past this is the new program for smaller projects that used to be the transportation enhancement program. Were continuing to advocate for the cpc to administer
At the coast, an 60 degrees. We will have light and variable winds with increasing clouds. Leyla gulen . The commute is starting off problematic. In daly city we have 280 problem northbound, a crash out there is blocking one lane. We have slow downs as you make it to the southbound direction but this could cause a delay so you need to make it into the city. As we head back over to the Altamont Pass and toward livermore westbound 580, we have a diesel truck citizen. Truck accident. There is bumpertobumper traffic this morning. To get between tracy and Castro Valley it will take you 50 minutes so give yourself extra time. In san jose, a fire has left one person dead. This is a picture showing the house which is charred. The flames are out. It is on South Willard avenue. Firefighters were called after midnight to the scene. Flames came from a small structure behind the main house. A person in the home was pronounced dead. Firefighters have not said whether the victim was a man or a woman
Criticisms surrounding the eastern span. Today, caltrans admitted some welds may suffer damage in an earthquake, that the alignment of some sections of the bridge are off by as much as 8 millimeters, and that a third of the bolts on the bridge have become wet because of leaks. Only on 2 tonight, ktvus tom vavar speaks to the bridges chief engineer about what all of this means and what critics are saying about that. Tom. Well, the chief has called his name is bryan mahoney. Hes been at this a long time. In fact, hes been with the replacement project since the quake damaged the original bridge a quarter century ago. Caltrans chief bridge engineer says though many bridge critics have impressive credentials, they lack something critical. They werent in the Work Solutions of the job. They dont understand the problem well enough. They cant possibly evaluate it. Sometimes youll notice people use flexible words so they can get out of things, you know. It could do this or it could do that. They
And the Legal Process clerk and im Cynthia Goldstein and were joined by departments Scott Sanchez here, the Zoning Administrator and also representing the Planning Department and planning commission. Joseph dusty representing the department of building inspection, and department of would now like to, urban foresty. The board requests that you turn off longer devices so they will not disturb the proceedings. Please carry on conversations in the hallway. Appellants, permitholders and Department Responds have seven presents to preponderant their case. People must include their comments with the 7 or 3minute periods. Members of public not affiliated with the partis have up to three minutes to address the board and no rebuttal. Please speak into the microphone. To assist the board in the proper notes you are asked to submit a speaker card when you come up to speak. The board welcome yours comments and suggestions. There are Customer Satisfaction forms on the podium for your convenience. If